Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau (19 December 1868 – 18 November 1959) was a French chemist. He studied at the elite
(ESPCI).
ESPCI ParisTech Alumni 1888
/ref> Together with his doctoral advisor Henri Moissan
Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan (28 September 1852 – 20 February 1907) was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Moissan was one of the original me ...
he was working on fluorine chemistry discovering several new compounds, like bromine trifluoride, oxygen difluoride, selenium tetrafluoride and sulfur hexafluoride
Sulfur hexafluoride or sulphur hexafluoride ( British spelling) is an inorganic compound with the formula SF6. It is a colorless, odorless, non- flammable, and non-toxic gas. has an octahedral geometry, consisting of six fluorine atoms attach ...
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In 1899 he was able to obtain pure beryllium
Beryllium is a chemical element with the symbol Be and atomic number 4. It is a steel-gray, strong, lightweight and brittle alkaline earth metal. It is a divalent element that occurs naturally only in combination with other elements to form m ...
by electrolysis sodium fluoroberyllate (Na2 eF2.
In World War I
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he improved the gas mask design used by the French army
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1868 births
1959 deaths
20th-century French chemists
ESPCI Paris alumni
Commandeurs of the LĂ©gion d'honneur
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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